SECTIONS 5096.805 - California Statutes

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE

SECTION 5096.805

5096.805. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions
set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
(a) "Board" means the Reclamation Board or successor entity.
(b) "Committee" means the Disaster Preparedness and Flood
Prevention Bond Finance Committee, created by Section 5096.957.
(c) "Delta" means the area of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as
defined in Section 12220 of the Water Code.
(d) "Department" means the Department of Water Resources.
(e) "Facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control" means the
levees, weirs, channels, and other features of the federally and
state-authorized flood control facilities located in the Sacramento
River and San Joaquin River drainage basin for which the board or the
department has given the assurances of nonfederal cooperation to the
United States required for the project, and those facilities
identified in Section 8361 of the Water Code.
(f) "Fund" means the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention
Bond Fund of 2006, created by Section 5096.806.
(g) "Project levees" means the levees that are part of the
facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control.
(h) "Restoration" means the improvement of a physical structure or
facility and, in the case of natural system and landscape features,
includes, but is not limited to, a project for the control of
erosion, the control and elimination of exotic species, including
prescribed burning, fuel hazard reduction, fencing out threats to
existing or restored natural resources, road elimination, and other
plant and wildlife habitat improvement to increase the natural system
value of the property. A restoration project shall include the
planning, monitoring, and reporting necessary to ensure successful
implementation of the project objectives.
(i) "State General Obligation Bond Law" means the State General
Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of
Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
(j) "State Plan of Flood Control" means the state and federal
flood control works, lands, programs, plans, conditions, and mode of
maintenance and operations of the Sacramento River Flood Control
Project described in Section 8350 of the Water Code, and of flood
control projects in the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River
watersheds authorized pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section
12648) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 6 of the Water Code for
which the board or the department has provided the assurances of
nonfederal cooperation to the United States, which shall be updated
by the department and compiled into a single document entitled "The
State Plan of Flood Control."
(k) "Urban area" means any contiguous area in which more than
10,000 residents are protected by project levees.